Proverbs 23:10
Do not touch the boundaries of little ones, and do not enter into the field of the fatherless.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
In Context
9Do not speak into the ears of the unwise. They will despise the doctrine of your eloquence.
11For their close relative is strong, and he will judge their case against you.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:17Cursed be he who removes his neighbor’s landmarks. And all the people shall say: Amen.
Job 22:9You have sent widows away empty, and you have crushed the shoulders of orphans.
Job 24:9They have used violence to deprive orphans, and they have robbed the poor common people.
Psalms 94:6Come, let us adore and fall prostrate, and let us weep before the Lord who made us.
Jeremiah 7:5For if you direct your ways and your intentions well, if you exercise judgment between a man and his neighbor,
Jeremiah 22:3Thus says the Lord: Exercise judgment and justice, and free anyone who is oppressed by violence from the hand of a false accuser. And do not be willing to sadden the new arrival, or the orphan, or the widow, nor should you burden them unfairly. And you shall not shed innocent blood in this place.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:10
9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. We are here directed not to cast pearls before swine ( Matt. vii. 6 ) and not to expose things sacred to the contempt and ridicule of profane scoffers. It is our duty to take all fit occasions to speak of divine things; but, 1. There are some that will make a jest of every thing, though it be ever so prudently and pertinently spoken, that will not only despise a wise man's words, but despise even the wisdom of them, that in them which… Read the whole commentary →